German, Nordic, and Slavic College of Letters and Science Scandinavian Studies Newsletter, Fall 2018 Volume xxi, Issue 1 A Message from the Program Chair, Kirsten Wolf In this issue... eason’s greetings and happy holidays to our friends, alumni, and donors from students, staff, and faculty in Alumni Tours to SScandinavian Studies. This issue of our newsletter is the last hard copy that Jim Leary Honored will be mailed out. From now on, we’ll move to an online version in order to save paper (and, by extension, trees) Norden and the Reformation and expenses in connection with printing and postage. In order to access the online version of the newsletter, simply Faculty and Staff Updates head to the Nordic section of the GNS website at https:// gns.wisc.edu/nordic/. However, if you would prefer a hard Graduate Student Updates copy, please contact us at [email protected]; we’ll Graduate Students Abroad then promptly print out a copy of the newsletter and mail it to you. We will, of course, continue to issue two newsletters Notes from our Alumni per year (December and May) to keep you informed of news and notes from campus. New Books in Scandinavian The fall semester has been great but also very busy. Studies In addition to our regular duties (teaching, research, and service), we’re organizing an international conference on Academic Publishing Work- Scandinavian Studies—the annual meeting of the Society for shop the Advancement of Scandinavian Study (SASS), which will take place May 2–4, 2019, at the Monona Terrace. It takes a SASS 2019 in Madison lot of hands and brains to organize a conference of this size; fortunately, we have a full house this semester: no faculty or staff member are on leave or sabbatical, and our grad- uate students are an amazing source of help and support. I’m happy to announce that three graduate students joined the department this year: Ailie Kerr, Bridgette Stoeckel, and Jill Johnson. You’ll find their profiles in this newsletter along with those of other graduate students as Scandinavian Studies well as, of course, faculty and staff members. Newsletter Committee With this newsletter, we’ve provided some insight into our many and varied activities. We hope that it’ll provide Marcus Cederström, Laura Mo- quin, Tristan Mueller-Vollmer, good and interesting reading material. We also hope that Amber Rose, and Kirsten Wolf. you’ll be impressed with our work and efforts. Professor Kirsten Wolf and UW-Madison alumni spent 10 days exploring Iceland. Photo credit: Sune Wolf Pulsiano Exploring Iceland with Alumni For the second year in a row, Kirsten Wolf took a group of 25 UW-Madison alumni on a 10-day trip to Iceland in order to explore the history and culture of the country. Because of the astronomical prices of hotels, busses, and flights during the tourist season, the UW-Alumni Association arranges trips to Iceland in the late spring in order to keep costs down. However, there are some risks associated with a trip so far north outside of the tourist season, as the “Exploring Iceland” group quickly learned. Although the group was warned about all kinds of weather and asked to pack appropriate clothes, no one expect- ed to see snow upon landing in Keflavík. On the second day, when the group was heading west, there were hurricane-force winds, sleet, and rain. Two days after that, when the group headed north, the bus had to be equipped with snow tires and belts because of concerns about getting stuck on the mountains roads. Still, everyone enjoyed the trip, and now and then there was a little bit of sunshine and fortunately places of much interest, such as Þingvellir, Akureyri, Námaskarð, and Dimmuborgir. Professor Emeritus Jim Leary Norden and the Reformation Honored at Folklore and the This year in Norden Hus we have four Wisconsin Idea Conference students, including one returning from last Folklorists were out in full force on campus year. This semester our Norden seminar from September 20–22 for the Folklore is on the Reformation, and we will be and the Wisconsin Idea conference. reading The Royal Physician’s Visit, a With folklorists from every corner of the Swedish novel about the Struensee affair country in attendance, Memorial Union in . The floor holds many weekly was brimming with stories, songs, and a events, including breakfasts, movie nights, whole lot of plaid shirts. For three days, we and Fika breaks. Many of these activities packed the Old Madison room of Memorial turn into impromptu learning sessions as we Union with friends, family, colleagues, and compare Swedish and Norwegian languages students both past and present. and cultures, which are evenly represented We heard original field recordings, among our students. We have also baked including wonderful songs like “A Viking cinnamon rolls for ’s national day Funeral” by Geno Leeche (recorded by and played the Nordic lawn game Kubb. Jens Lund). We were brought to tears by Many other ILC residents have joined our Claire Schmidt’s beautiful presentation Norden activities, and a few native Swedes on the importance of place and people in have come around as well. We also have a prisonwork here in Wisconsin, which drew few excursions planned for the future, such on her book, If You Don’t Laugh You’ll as the Scandinavian Folklore Village and, of Cry: The Occupational Humor of White course, a trip to the newly opened IKEA in Wisconsin Prison Workers. We laughed as Milwaukee! Anne Pryor opened her presentation on curling by wearing her club jacket and leading Janet Gilmore and Jim Leary in a traditional toast. And we were excited about prospects for the digital presentation of folklore by graduate students like Colin Connors and Mirva Johnson. We watched as presenter after presenter, panel after panel, spoke to the power of public folklore, the importance of it in their lives, families, and communities. We watched as Janet Gilmore and Jim Leary were honored for the amazing work that they have done, and continue to do, in the Upper Midwest and beyond. Annual Glögg Fest After three days of intense program- Join us for our annual glögg fest to ming, including eight panels, six plenary celebrate the season. Bring your friends and presentations, and one fantastically catered family to 1418 Van Hise on December 13 picnic, Jim and Janet had been sufficiently from 4:30–7:30pm. Students, faculty, and embarrassed (read honored). We’re excited staff will be on hand with delicious treats to continue to work with them to support and warm glögg. Hope to see you there! and sustain folklife in the Upper Midwest. Faculty and Staff Updates Thomas A. DuBois spent this Since her book came out last past year feeling relieved and year, Susan Brantly has been gratified that his years-long catching up on several projects, fieldwork project resulted at last involving modernism, Dinesen, in the book Sacred to the Touch: and decadence. Her article on Nordic and Baltic Religious Woodcarving, “Babette’s Feast” appeared in a Croatian which appeared in late 2017. Another work journal, but you can peruse it in English that he had been co-editing for years also if you go to Susan’s web page on the GNS came out: Nordic Literature: A Comparative web site. The article “Nordic Modernism for History, Volume 1: Spatial Nodes.This study Beginners” that appears in a special issue of looks at the ways in which place is depicted Humanities on Nordic modernisms will seem in Nordic literature over time. In addition to familiar to anyone who found themselves in these books, Tom finished work with Marcus “Masterpieces of Scandinavian Literature: Cederström on a collection of translated the 20th Century,” since it presents the Finnish-American songs and translated a distilled wisdom of thirty years of teaching wealth of Sámi poetry and prose for two that course. Last spring, Susan was pleased forthcoming anthologies. He was honored to be invited to Berkeley to deliver the key- to receive, along with colleagues here at note talk at the “Borders and Bridges” con- UW and community partners on the Lac du ference. Further, she spoke to the Valdemar Flambeau reservation, a UW Community Aager Society in Eau Claire about Ibsen’s Partnership award, presented by Chancellor Enemy of the People in preparation for the Blank in June, 2018, for the multiyear adaptation of Ibsen’s classic performed at project “Indigenous Sustainabilities: the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis. Health, Culture and Environment in Waaswaaganing.” Marcus Cederström has spent the past year criss-crossing the Upper Claus Elholm Andersen joined Midwest. There were talks in the department in 2017 and has Monroe and Madison, Superior and since taught courses on Hans Stoughton. Fieldwork in Houghton Christian Andersen, contemporary and Hancock. Nordic-American Scandinavian literature, and festivals in Nisswa and New Berlin. He also the Nordic welfare state. In his research, helped organize a summer field school for he queries fiction and fictionality: What students in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan it is, how it works, and what it implies. in June, hosted a conference in honor of Fictionality is also front and center in his Jim Leary and Janet Gilmore in September, current book project on Norwegian author and organized a series of presentations at Karl Ove Knausgård. His recent publications the American Folklore Society conference include an article on Knausgård’s My in honor of the late folklorist Barbro Klein Struggle, published in Critical Quarterly, in October. His research resulted in a forth- and an article on the Danish author Helle coming journal article, two co-written Helle in a special issue of Spring, which he articles, and a forthcoming book chapter. co-edited with Stig Olsen and Dag Heede. With David Natvig and Mirva Johnson, he also Prior to coming to Madison, he held a produced a short documentary film about position at the , where the Norwegian-American town of Ulen, he also wrote his dissertation. Since coming Minnesota, titled “It Belongs to All of Us”: A to Madison, he has given numerous talks Community and Its Museum.” around Wisconsin on hygge and happiness. Peggy Hager was delighted to be attended a family wedding in Colorado, and doing what she really enjoys this helped host an extended family event in summer—teaching Norwegian to August. Last but not least in a busy summer, first-level students. GNS offered Dean spent Tuesday afternoons with his first year intensive summer niece Sofie. Norwegian through a grant from Scott A. Mellor started his European Studies.The course was the only summer by creating and fully online language class offered at UW- teaching an online Vikings Madison this summer. The intensive format course. He spent some of allows students to focus on one subject and the summer working on his make fast progress in a short time. While second TED-Ed, this one on the summer course has been offered in the Thor’s hammer. He has also been asked to past in a traditional classroom, students’ create a pilot for a Great Courses streamed summer schedules have changed. Work and class on Nordic history. He is vice-president travel commitments make it difficult for of the Association of Swedish Teachers and students to sit in a classroom. The online Researchers in America. He continues to format allows students greater flexibility work with the Bradley Learning Community, and UW students can enroll in the course a first-year dorm, and the Inter-national from anywhere in the world. The format Learning Community as director of the lan- presents unique challenges for the learner guage floor Norden. His interest in getting and instructor, but our course management first year undergraduates started has man- system (Canvas) is a powerful tool that is ifested itself in teaching another First-year well-suited to online instruction. Required Interest Group. In his research, he worked face-to-face chats with the instructor help this summer on his Åland folk life and identi- provide individualized instruction and insure ty project and presented “Åland: Navigating that students make progress in oral skills. Identity” at a folklore conference. The wet summer also helped Peggy hone Much like the monks in med- her Wisconsin mushroom picking skills (see ieval libraries and throughout picture) that were developed in . time, Todd Michelson- Dean Krouk spent the summer Ambelang is hidden away embarking on a new research in the library. He continues project about varieties of collecting for Scandinavian anti-fascist literature and Languages and Literatures and culture in Norway in the 1930s recently received a small number of Swedish and 1940s, with summer items printed in the US in the late 19th and funding from UW-Madison. Connected to early 20th century. In the coming months, he this project, he developed a new graduate hopes to continue collections of Sámi works seminar on interwar . In and Greenlandic works in Danish or English addition, Dean wrote a journal article about translation, in addition to the Scandinavian the contemporary American playwright Will Languages. He has recently taken on the Eno’s adaptation of Ibsen’s Peer Gynt, and added position of ADA Liaison for Public spoke about this at the International Ibsen Services in the General Library System. Conference in Skien, Norway. As the new Eking out time for writing is not an easy president of NORTANA, Dean was active in task; he has been working on five publication the planning of the annual Norway Seminar. projects—one at a time—and hopes that He vacationed in the Canadian Rockies, these will soon be completed. Nete Schmidt continues teaching Graduate Student Updates 2nd year Danish and is happy to have a large enrollment in Colin Connors—This summer I “The Tales of Hans Christian co-authored an article for the Andersen.” She is also delighted Journal of Sustainability to be back with Scandinavian Life and Education and presented at the Civilization, comprising a number of exciting International Saga Conference. guest lectures. She stays connected to the This year I am a visiting scholar at the Uni- Lektoratsudvalg (under the Danish Ministry versity of Washington where I will continue of Education), and participated in the annual to write my dissertation on place-names seminar in Denmark. She gave a paper and landscape in the Icelandic sagas. at the annual SASS conference, and she joined DANA (Danish Academic Network of Hayden Godfrey—After studying America) in Provo in October. She continues Swedish in this summer, her work on reflections of reality, especially I am currently in my second year immigration issues, in contemporary of the MA program in Scandina- Danish crime stories. In April, she had an vian Philology and have recently article about Scandinavian Feminist Crime begun work on my MA thesis on Stories printed in “Knjizevna Smotra,” a areal contact between Old Norse and Old Croatian Magazine, and her article about Saxon. Scandinavian Science Fiction will be included Bailey Green—Having spent the in the “Rethinking Norden in an Evolving summer completing research World” hub. Her two youngest sons were in Scandinavia, I am back in happily married this summer and fall. Madison for my last year of MA Kirsten Wolf has returned to coursework. I plan to complete teaching and service after my thesis on Soviet-Norwegian relations in her sabbatical in spring of postwar Norway this semester. I am also 2018. Kirsten had a productive working as a TA for a course on Hans Chris- sabbatical. Her co-authored book tian Andersen. on Three Humanist Compendia in Danish and Icelandic Translation has now been Jill Johnson—I am a new submitted to the Editiones Arnamagnæanæ student and a Board member series. A Cultural History of Color, a six- at Vesterheim, the National volume work, of which she is not only co- Norwegian-American Museum general editor but also co-editor of two and Heritage Center. A part-time volumes (Medieval and Enlightenment) is student and practicing attorney, well under way, so there is still hope that I hold a BA in Economics, MBA, and JD, all the publication deadline of 2020 can be met. from UW-Madison. Despite her busy research schedule, Kirsten Mirva Johnson—I am a PhD managed to take time off to spend weekends student researching Heritage with her son in Chicago, work in her yard (a Finnish and Nordic American favorite hobby), and once again serve as a folklore. This summer I con- faculty host for a trip to Iceland arranged by ducted fieldwork and helped the Alumni Association. Oulu, Wisconsin, with their summer school program and Juhannus Midsummer festival. Ailie Kerr—This is my first year in intersections of spirituality and the sea in Madison and I am looking forward the Sagas of the Icelanders. to starting my MA. I’m interested in the medieval period, folklore, John Prusynski—I am a second church art, material culture, and year PhD student focusing on obstetrics. My modern language is Danish. North Sámi literature. I am interested in the ways Sámi Michael Knudson—I am a third-year PhD. authors are exploring questions My research focuses on monasti- of identity, globalization, and indigeneity. cism in Medieval Iceland and its I am also a TA for the Masterpieces of position in the wider European Scandinavian Literature course. context. I have taught Modern Icelandic as well as literature. Amber J. Rose—This is my sixth year at UW–Madison, and I am Brett Mignin—I am in the second busy writing my dissertation year of my MA in philology after on legends of witchcraft in a 3-week stint in Axvall, Sweden. Scandinavia. I also work at This year I am working as a TA the University of Wisconsin Press in the and as the Graduate Language Acquisitions Department. Program Coordinator for our ILC language community. Bridgette Stoeckel—I am a first-year masters student and Laura Moquin—I am currently my Scandinavian language is teaching first-year Norwegian Danish. My research interest is while finishing up my MA in in the literature treating the Scandinavian philology, after post-colonial relationship among Denmark, returning from a summer course Greenland, and the . at the University of Iceland. I focus on his- torical linguistics and language ideology. Kyle Swenson—This is my fifth year here and my Tristan Mueller-Vollmer—I second as a PhD student. This am continuing work on my semester I’m TAing for 19th dissertation on personal names Century Scandinavian Fiction. on Swedish Viking Age runestones The general direction of and serving as the PA for the my studies is something like 19th century Journal of English and . literary conceptions of the Vikings/sagas. I am also excited about The Vikings: Facts and Fictions, a book I co-authored with Richelle Wilson—I am a fourth- Professor Kirsten Wolf. year PhD student focusing on literary studies and public Lauren Poyer—In the spring, humanities. This year, I am I accepted a position at the teaching second-year Swedish in the and working part-time as a radio producer Department of Scandinavian here in Madison. Other projects this Studies as a lecturer. I also semester include editing a collected passed my preliminary examinations this volume about Nordic folk dress and summer! My dissertation examines the preparing for preliminary exams.

Notes from Our Alumni Rachel Willson-Broyles

Dr. Rachel Willson-Broyles graduated from the Department of Scandinavian Studies (now the Department of German, Nordic, and Slavic) with her Ph.D. in May of 2013. While still a student, Rachel began to translate from Swedish into English and enjoyed the work so much that it is now her full-time career. Her years of language learning and teaching at the university are of course crucial to her success, but she emphasizes that her studies prepared her in other ways as well. “My years of in-depth study of Swedish literature, culture, and language are what make it possible to do my job every day,” she says. “When I need to research a term or concept further, I use skills I learned throughout my education.” And, she adds,“graduate school prepared me for a hard part of self- employment: sitting down to work every day even when the deadline seems far off.” Asked what advice she would offer current graduate students, Rachel suggested to “practice communicating professionally and clearly in both English and your other languages.” Workplace etiquette is key everywhere, and if you ever need to write in your Nordic language, she stresses that it’s crucial to be “polite and professional in different cultural contexts.” Rachel also recommends that graduate students join non-academic professional organizations in addition to the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study; she herself, for instance, belongs to the American Literary Translators Association. Such groups can offer professional development opportunities, best-practice guidelines, and conferences where, she points out, “you can get to know colleagues and build a community.” Now living in St. Paul, Minnesota, Rachel not only reads plenty of Swedish for her job but also teaches Swedish once a week at the American Swedish Institute in Minneapolis. Although she loves St. Paul, where she and her wife recently bought a house, she confesses to missing Madison as well—in particular the Kakilima food cart. Look for Rachel’s newest translation, out in January of 2019, of Jonas Jonasson’s The Accidental Further Adventures of the 100-Year-Old Man (HarperCollins), and her translation of Quicksand by Malin Persson Giolito (Other Press), which received the 2018 Petrona Award for Best Scandinavian Crime Novel of the Year in the UK. Notes from Our Alumni Tim Frandy

Dr. Tim Frandy, who earned his Ph.D. at UW-Madison in Scandinavian Studies and Folklore in 2013, is now in his second year as an Assistant Professor of Folk Studies at Western Kentucky University (WKU). Specializing in public folklore, museum studies, and historic preservation, the highly-regarded Folk Studies Program at WKU offers a Masters program and undergraduate minor. “It’s a real privilege getting to work with such fantastic colleagues,” says Frandy, “as well as the talented young graduate students.” Frandy’s current course-load includes Cultural Conservation, Vernacular Architecture, Museum Studies, and Foodways. Over the summer Frandy guest edited two special journal issues. One, one the topic of “Decolonizing and Sustainability Education,” was for the open-access and online Journal of Sustainability Education. The other, called “Common Ground: People and Our Places,” was for the Journal of Folklore and Education. Frandy explains, “It was a ton of work, but both issues turned out wonderfully. It was really a treat to watch all these essays grow and evolve.” Perhaps most important, Frandy’s new researched translation Inari Sámi Folklore: Stories from Aanaar, is complete and set to be released in January of 2019 by the University of Wiscon- sin Press. The book is mostly based on fieldwork conducted by A.V. Koskimies in the 1880s. Encouraged by other folklore collectors, Koskimies studied the Aanaar (Inari) Sámi language for only a few months, and wrote down stories in the Aanaar language as best he could—most likely understanding only a fraction of what was being said. The hand written man- uscripts sat for thirty years before the ethnographer Toivo Itkonen published them in 1917 in Finnish and Aanaar Sámi. “It’s an underused collection,” says Frandy. “It’s got hundreds of pages of fairy tales, belief legends, proverbs, riddles, omens, and humorous stories from this small community of about 800 Aanaar Sámi, who have just experienced a massive transition in the way they are living.” The collection features many stories that detail the transition from fishing and hunting toward agriculture, from traditional religion toward Christianity, from traditional siida governance to Finnish-style governance. Frandy augments the original text with storyteller biographies, maps, period photos, and headnotes that contextualize the stories in their time and place. “By situating these stories within the community,” says Frandy, “we can better understand how the community is diverse. We can see the relationships between stories and storytellers, whether the bawdy humor of Antti Kitti, the didacticism of schoolmaster Iisakki Mannermaa, or the feminist leanings of Juho Petteri Lusmaniemi.” New Books from Nordic Faculty, Staff, and Students • Susan Brantly. The Historical Novel, Transnationalism, and the Postmodern Era. New York: Routledge, 2017. 190 pages. • Thomas A. DuBois. Sacred to the Touch: Nordic and Baltic Religious Wood Carving. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2017. 201 pages. • Thomas A. DuBois et al., eds. Spatial Nodes. Vol. 1 of Nordic Literature: A Comparative History. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2017. 733 pages. • Dean Krouk. Fascism and Modernist Literature in Norway. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2017. 180 pages. • Kirsten Wolf and Natalie M. Van Deusen. The Saints in Old Norse and Early Modern Icelandic Poetry. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2017. 377 pages. • Kirsten Wolf and Tristan Mueller-Vollmer. The Vikings: Facts and Fictions. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2018. 183 pages. Workshop Series on Summer Adventures Academic Publishing Several graduate students traveled to Scandinavia For the 2018–2019 academic year, the this summer, where they honed their linguistic Department of German, Nordic, and skills—like Hayden Godfrey—or presented at Slavic is partnering with the University conferences—like Amber J. Rose. Four of our of Wisconsin Press to offer a series students, highlighted here, received stipends for of workshops on academic publishing more in-depth work: to faculty, staff, and students in the Brett Mignin: In late July, with much thanks to department and beyond. Each of the the Swedish Institute, I had the opportunity to eight sessions features at least one study in Axvall, Sweden, and improve my Swedish Press staff member and most feature a in preparation for my position as Norden House GNS faculty member. The sessions cover GLPC. It was a wonderful experience, immersing topics like contracts and subventions, myself in the culture and speaking Swedish in the turning dissertations into books, and beautiful countryside. The unprecedented warm copyright issues. weather in Sweden enabled us to take many of our language courses outside, and we traveled The series is spearheaded by Amber J. to many nearby destinations, such as Skövde, Rose, a Ph.D. candidate in the Nordic Gothenburg, and nature reserves. Being an inter- unit and an assistant acquisitions national program, it allowed me to meet a variety editor at the Press. “Being both an of students from all over and elsewhere. acquisitions editor and a student gives me an unusual perspective on the Mirva Johnson: This summer, I spent eight days two halves of academic publishing,” in the stunning community of Sointula, on Malcom Rose says. “There’s not as much Island in British Columbia, doing fieldwork with communication as there could be linguist Dr. Marisa Brook. Sointula was settled in between them.” The series will 1901 as a utopian colony by Finnish immigrants provide a space to encourage that and while the initial colony failed, a vibrant communication between publishing community remains—along with many heritage professionals and academics. speakers of Finnish. I interviewed several speakers of Finnish and am analyzing how this var- iety of Finnish relates to heritage Finnish SASS in Madison spoken in the Upper Midwest, while also researching how and when the community The Society for the Advancement transitioned to speaking English. It was an of Scandinavian Study is a scholarly incredibly fruitful trip, and Dr. Brook and I organization devoted to the study of all are hoping to return for more interviews! topics related to the . It Laura Moquin: With the help of depart- was founded in 1911, with UW professor ment funding, I studied modern Icelandic Julius Olson as its first president. Two of the for four weeks this summer at the Uni- current faculty at our university have served versity of Iceland’s International Summer as presidents in more recent years: Susan School in Reykjavík. The program included Brantly and Tom DuBois. regular trips to museums, historical sites, Each year, the Society mounts a major and other places of interest. Organizers international conference, where scholars invited in lecturers with expertise in from and Europe converge to many different fields, including a music present their research and benefit from each historian, a political historian, and a other’s feedback and advice. On May 2–4, geologist. I really appreciated the diverse 2019, the UW-Madison will host SASS at the perspectives of Iceland. The language Monona Terrace Center. classes were intensive, but very rewarding. When I left Iceland, I was very happy with A wide range of different presenters and my new and improved language skills, and presentations are expected, including art my experience in general. I look forward to history, culture, film, folklore, history, going back sometime soon after I have had language pedagogy, linguistics, literature, a chance to improve even more! medieval studies, and many other topics. Bailey Green: Thanks to generous funding A special component of this year’s program from the Torskeklubben organization in will be an interrelated conference on Madison, Wisconsin, I was able to travel Nordic-American folk art. There will be to Scandinavia this summer to complete events that are both open to the general research for my MA thesis. I spoke with public and others limited to conference U.S. Embassy and Fulbright representatives participants. We invite you to consult the in Oslo, Stockholm, and Helsinki about SASS website for details and to consider American-Soviet relations in Postwar joining us for some or all of this unique Scandinavia. With all of the research I and exciting intellectual event! The SASS accomplished, I hope to complete my website is: https://scandinavianstudy.org/ thesis by December 2018.

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